„We need to talk“

Do robots need a body to learn natural language?

Humans learn language through their body. A small child that falls a thousand times while trying to walk grasps the word “falling” this way. Later on it understands metaphors such as “the stocks are falling”. > more

„Smells are not things“

A new theory of odor perception

Smells are different from sights. Yet for decades odor perception has been measured with the same techniques as visual perception. Ep Köster proposes a different approach.